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It’s my birthday and I’ll dance if I want to
Dance if I want to
Dance if I want to
You would dance too if it happen’d to-oo yoooou

Oh yeah. Who’s 27 today? THIS GUY.

Anyway, here are some thoughts on birthdays in general, mine specifically, and why I am the most righteous dude since Simeon:

• 27. That’s an awesome number. 3 cubed. 3^3. 3**3, for the truly geeky. I haven’t been a perfect cube age in 19 years! I won’t be again for another 37! Hey, 19; 37; prime numbers. What’s the difference between 5^3 and 4^3; 125 – 64 = 61. Prime number! I might be on to something here. 6^3 = 216; 216-125 = 91, or 13 times 7. Crap. Nevermind. (Well, at least 13 and 7 are each prime numbers! That’s still kinda cool, right? No? Nevermind.) (And yes, sadly, I just did all that in my head.)
• They’re expecting a big blizzard this weekend! Just like the weekend I was born, way back in 1978! Hopefully this isn’t some kind of portent of doom. (Is portent the right word? Somebody tell me, ’cause I’m WAAAAY too lazy to look it up.)
• Have I officially reached my late 20s? Or do I have to get to about 27.5 for that? Should I start having an emotional breakdown in July, or can my “biological clock” start ticking (LIKE THIS: STOMP STOMP STOMP) now? I just need this cleared up before I drive my wife crazy. (Correction: craziER.)
• Here’s a list of awesome shiznit that has occurred on my birthday:
  • 1189 – Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
  • 1793 – After being found guilty for treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is guillotined.
  • 1853 – Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope-folding machine.
  • 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
  • 1908 – New York City passes a law, the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public only to be vetoed by the mayor.
  • 1924 – Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.
  • 1950 – Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
  • 1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, then the First Lady of the United States.
  • 1994 – Lorena Bobbitt is found not-guilty by reason of temporary insanity for severing the penis of her husband John Bobbitt.
  • 2003 – The terms of Kevin Mitnick’s parole allow him to use a computer again.

  Awesome.

  Info swiped from Wikipedia

• I think today’s Achewood says all that needs to be said.